Michael Pachter predicts Xbox 720 will cost $ 99

 

The next console from Microsoft, known com Xbox 720, could be a radical change to the previous model. The company bet to design a device which approaches the possibilities of a 'set on box', allowing users access to TV content, Internet and games. Analyst Michael Pachter has said that Microsoft will come to an agreement with cable TV providers to offer subsidized console from $ 99 (80.5 euros).
After Nintendo Wii submit U, its next-generation console, the speculations and rumors about the reaction from Microsoft and Sony have been steady in recent months. Many believe that companies bet for a radical change in their devices, changing the usual technical evolution from one generation to another by a new distribution model, based on games in the cloud.
Meanwhile, companies are still reluctant to accept such a radical change, although their movements appear to be on that line. For example, Sony has recently acquired Gaikai, a company that is dedicated just to the games in the cloud. For its part, Microsoft has not commented, but is expected to follow that line strategy.
Amid the speculation, one of the most recognizable analysts in the world of video games, Michael Pachter, said its outlook for the next generation of Xbox. Pachter is known to hit a large number of these assessments in what your opinion on Microsoft's strategy in this field is taken into account.
Specifically, Michael Pachter has said that the next console from Microsoft will be a kind of 'set on box', which will unify access to all content and the company's divisions. In comments reported by the specialized portal IncGamers, the analyst explained that this important step takes brewing in Microsoft for the past years.
The truth is that Microsoft has been introduced in most markets in digital content. The company has a presence in the gaming world, offering audiovisual content via Xbox Live and has already reached agreements with cable television companies to offer their services. The objective now is to create a device that allows the consumption of these products to as many people as possible.
To achieve this goal, Michael Pachter explained that Microsoft will partner with cable TV providers. This alliance, in addition to increasing the catalog of content, allow the company to offer the console at a price set.
Specifically, Pachter has said that Microsoft would sell the new Xbox 720 for $ 99 by a grant from other companies. Users to buy the device, would commit to purchase also a cable TV service for a specified time. This is a model that has been used for years in areas such as mobile phones. A case even closer to this model is the option to purchase the Sony PS Vita Vodafone.
Michael Pachter forecasts seem quite possible. With a device of this type, Xbox 720 maintain its position as a clear rival to the Sony console and allow Microsoft to improve in booming sectors. Moreover, the idea of ​​turning the console on a 'set on box' would make Microsoft could sell the device as a way to turn any television into a Smart TV, it seems the future of the display market.
By the time since Microsoft still silent. However, Pachter forecasts fit perfectly in the new philosophy of the company to connect all their products to provide a service platform. Surely after new products are launched Windows 8 Microsoft decides to announce updates to Xbox 720 and will then be able to confirm or download Michael Pachter.

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Microsoft buy the maker of screens Perceptive Pixel

 

TORONTO (Reuters) - Microsoft will acquire Perceptive Pixel, a company that develops large touch screens and whose clients include the cable television channel CNN said Monday its chief executive, Steve Ballmer.
Microsoft also said it plans to launch the latest version of its flagship operating system Windows in October, launch Ballmer painted as the most important for the company based in Redmond (Washington) since the release of Windows 95 nearly two decades.
"This is a year epic" Ballmer said more than 16,000 business partners at a conference in Toronto. "It is a year of unprecedented opportunities," remarked the executive.
The next 12 months are critical to the software giant, which has prepared a multi-pronged attack against the dominance of Apple and Google in the crucial segment of mobile computing.
The company is making several bets important in this period: its new operating system Windows 8, aiming for launch in late October, the first tablet "Surface", a new version of Office, and a new and improved software for telephony.
"The main products not only enter into a new wave, but for years to know if Microsoft's bid for Windows 8, which links to the tablets and PCs will be a success or a failure for the company," said IDC analyst Al Hilwa.
Microsoft said that Windows 8 will send its hardware partners in the first week of August, and will be available more widely to late October.
"This will be the biggest year in the launch of products and services in the history of our company, creating huge opportunities for our partners grow their business," Ballmer said in a statement released simultaneously in annual Worldwide Partner Conference.
Microsoft, which recently agreed to buy the online social network Yammer by 1,200 million dollars in cash (about 975 million euros), did not disclose the value of what you plan to pay for the acquisition of Perceptive Pixel.
Perceptive Pixel was founded in 2006 and launched its first workstations and large wall screens in 2007, according to its website, where presumed to "transform the way CNN covered the historic U.S. presidential election of 2008 ".

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Broadband Internet : Who use it ?

 

The following is a list of countries by fixed (wired) broadband Internet subscriptions and penetration rate, compiled by the International Telecommunication Union mostly for the year 2010. It refers to subscriptions to high-speed access to the public Internet (a TCP/IP connection), at downstream speeds equal to, or greater than, 256 kbit/s. This can include for example cable modem, DSL, fibre-to-the-home/building and other fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions. This total is measured irrespective of the method of payment. It excludes subscriptions that have access to data communications (including the Internet) via mobile cellular networks.
Note: Because an Internet subscription may be shared by many people, the penetration rate will not reflect the actual level of access to broadband Internet of the population.

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